A new study published today by Wake Forest University and an international team of scientists reveals that tree communities ...

A major study shows Amazon and Andes forests are failing to adapt to climate change, raising alarms for biodiversity and ...

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is ...

Picture a forested hillside stripped bare, replaced by row after row of black solar panels. That’s the tradeoff many ...

The Amazon rainforest can become a distant memory because it's at the brink of a tipping point that could transform it for ...

Deforestation has reached alarming levels in Bolivia, and the main driver is the rise in slash-and-burn land clearance practices.

In the Amazon, gold mining is a thriving business, pushing deep into the rainforest and indigenous lands. Small-scale operations set up primarily illicitly and operated in the shadows use mercury ...

As a part of Professor David Wilcove’s lab, Wiebe is analyzing how forest fragmentation affects bird species’ diversity within the Amazon. We are currently living on the Tanguro farm in the state of ...

In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing species, a recent study has found. Having examined 1,207 tree species ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST – A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places ...